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jon f mn · May 9, 2017

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kcm.MN · May 9, 2017

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RBnWA · May 9, 2017

Good one. Gittin to be less land line phones every day. Haven t had land line since we moved out here. RB

db4600 · May 9, 2017

Ma had one with a really long tail. I swear she covered half the house with that thing. Then she was like a rock singer. She could make supper, set the table, maybe even run downstairs and never get caught on a thing!

jeffcat · May 9, 2017

In SJ there are so few land lines that 5he phone company is going to abandon them.

wjytexas · May 9, 2017

I keep my land line for the "IRS", Rachel with credit card services, the hearing aid I inquired about, and other liars. That's the number I give when filling out forms, warranties, etc.

paul · May 9, 2017

Don't know how to get reliable internet without a land line.

Still have the phone on the wall that was a party line even.

Paul

farmerwithmutt · May 9, 2017

The Amish are going to be in trouble they only use land lines around here. They will find a way to cheat the rules soon enough.

Steve@Advance · May 9, 2017

DB4600, that brings back some memories!

My aunt Birdie (yes, that was her real name), lived across the street when I was a kid. She had a turquoise wall phone in the kitchen. The curly cord was about 30 feet long! She could go just about anywhere in the house with that thing!

I can still hear her on the phone...

"I'm a 'gonna sit down, cross my legs, smoke a cigarette, and drink a glass of tea!"

That was her saying, don't know where it came from, but if you were around her more than 5 minutes, you were guaranteed to hear it. And see it! LOL

rrlund · May 9, 2017

I got thinking this morning,how would we feel if cell phones and smart phones had resulted as a mandate from the government? "You have to carry this big electronic device with you at all times!".

rrlund · May 9, 2017

Cheat what rules? There's no written set of "Amish rules". No Amish Pope to enforce them. The local Bishops are the highest authority. Whatever they say goes.

That reminds me of one of the old order,steel wheel Mennonites here. A friend of both of my boys was at his house. He only had three steel wheels on his lawn tractor. Brennan pointed at it and said "What's the deal with the rubber tire?".
The Mennonite said "What are you gonna do,turn me in?".

sms · May 9, 2017

Around here they do minimal maintenance on the lines in the boonies. Trees lay on them pulling them down ect as long as they work they don't do anything.

farmerwithmutt · May 9, 2017

I often thought that the amish liked to live back in the field to keep away from the English . but i had one day going past a farm comment on how a certain farm was to close to the road and the other amish knew what he had. My neighbor before i cracked down on him his favorite trick was before church at his place moved all the wrong stuff over onto my place sometimes it was sitting in my yard for a couple weeks.

47fivewindow · May 9, 2017

what do you think the phone company's stock will do when they go all fiber optic and start to recycle all that copper? They have all but abandoned the copper lines in Maryland already, from a maintenance point of view.

Fritz Maurer · May 9, 2017

Your story makes me wonder about those guys. I had a few coming to my house cutting firewood to sell. They'd buggy up here from 15 miles away, saw wood all day, and go home. All week the temp never got above 0 deg.F. Those poor guys would be frozen stiff when they got here. I'd bring them in the house, throw their boots in the dryer and make them a pot of coffee, then I found out they didn't speak English (awkward) , and build a fire in the stove in the garage before I went to work. We had a pretty good system and they were moving some wood, then the Bishop (or whoever) found out they were using chain saws instead of bucksaws. Soon after, they just abandoned the project because it was just too dang cold to go too dang far and do all that work by hand. Just some guys trying to feed their families had to find less profitable work, but the Bishop got to show how smart he was.

rrlund · May 10, 2017

Ya,there are two communities of them just north of here,one east of town,one north. One of them can use chainsaws,air compressors,air tools,the whole works. The other can't use any of that. The Bishop says so and that's the way it is.
Their Bishop isn't the oldest or wisest. You don't work your way up through the ranks. When a new Bishop is chosen,it's by lottery. All adult male members of the community are in the lottery and are chosen totally at random to make sure it's God's Will,not man's.

GVSII · May 10, 2017

(quoted from post at 07:40:27 05/09/17) The Amish are going to be in trouble they only use land lines around here. They will find a way to cheat the rules soon enough.

A good number of Amish around me are toting cell phones.I don't know of any with a land line.

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